In the letter, committee Chair John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law Subcommittee Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) requested documents from as early as 2002 on the deaths of detained immigrants and on the medical and mental health care they received. The lawmakers said they made the request in response to a four-day Washington Postseries, titled "Careless Detention," on the treatment of detained immigrants. They asked ICE to provide the same documents that the Post received from the agency, unredacted, within five days (CongressDaily, 5/15).
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